Delighted my poem “Bricks (and annoying little brothers)” with audio is live on The Dirigible Balloon. dirigibleballoon.org/poem/Bricks-...

Delighted my poem “The Tiger who became friends with a Hedgehog” with audio is live on The Dirigible Balloon. dirigibleballoon.org/poem/The-Tig...

My review of Tara Singh’s Fragments @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social emmalee1.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/f...

Another great list of poetry blogs from @davebonta.bsky.social with thanks:

Another great list of curated poetry blogs:

My review of Caroline Stancer's Full Body Reclaim @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social emmalee1.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/f...

This week in the poetry blogs with @victoriamoul.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @beckyltuch.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @matriches.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/12/poet...

My review of Ramisha Kafique's The Postcolonial Flâneuse Five Leaves Publications emmalee1.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/t...

My review of Tony Challis's "Rainbow Candles" @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social emmalee1.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/r...

My review of Julie Gardner's Remembering Five Leaves Publications: emmalee1.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/r...

Today I was over in Scraptoft in Leicester, so took the opportunity to take my eldest daughter to the memorial I built in 2013 in memory of the 325th GIR, camped in Scraptoft from February 1944, and the 504th PIR, camped a few miles away in Evington from April 1944.

More great poetry blogs to read/follow with thanks to @davebonta.bsky.social

Reposting to boost:

My review of Julie Burke's Kindling from Five Leaves Publications emmalee1.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/k...

Another great curated list with thanks to @davebonta.bsky.social

Remembrance Service War Memorial Homes at Scraptoft today www.scraptoftparishcouncil.gov.uk/news/2025/11...

Sometimes getting a bunch of writers together is a fab idea (and not just because I was awarded with the Ena Young Poetry Award).

Embroidering Elizabeth Heyrick. How I created a cross-stitch of Elizabeth Heyrick's silhouette: www.elizabethheyrick.org/news/embroid...

Review Request etiquette: emmalee1.wordpress.com/2018/05/30/h.... Don't tag a reviewer publicly on social media: it's not just rude, it's a surefire way of getting rejected.

My review of Carrie Etter's Veer, Oscillate, Rest @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social emmalee1.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/v...

A fabulous list of poetry blogs with thanks to @davebonta.bsky.social

My review of Sarah James' "Darling Blue" @indigodreamspub.bsky.social emmalee1.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/d...

Delighted to receive Southlight issue 38 with 2 of my poems (first stanza of one in the image below):

Our crowdfunder for Up//Roar poems of Queer Resistance is live! This anthology of #LGBTQ+ #poems will be edited by Cherry Potts and Jeremy Dixon (Hazard Press). Help get our tiger roaring! submissions (UK/RoI only) still open til 1st nov www.crowdfunder.co.uk/uproar-poems-of-queer-resistance

#PoemsAbout #BurnForTheCamera starts Friday. Write into overexposure. Lights too hot. Love as theatre. Fame’s funeral. Draft now. Share from Friday. Tag your post. Use Alt Text. Sign up for prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

The 1905 Shoemakers’ Walk is featured in the anthology “Welcome to Leicester” so good to see it featured in the Leicester Gazette. www.leicester.news/the-1905-une...

Delighted to receive issue 101 of Poetry Scotland with my poem Skin was an uncomfortable to inhabit.

Sad news: www.koreaherald.com/article/1059...

Thanks to the team at The Pixel Project:

Elizabeth Heyrick (1769–1831) "Immediate not Gradual Abolition: Or, an Inquiry into the Shortest, Safest, and Most Effectual Means of Getting Rid of West Indian Slavery" Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1838. Elizabeth Heyrick was a British Quaker abolitionist.

Another curated list of poetry blogs:

My poem up at Black Nore Review with thanks to the editor:

Delightful little grump, also known as Honey, celebrating 19 years with us by catching the autumn sun. Originally a rescue, she turns 21 this month.

The brilliant @arachnepress.bsky.social has been spotlighted for #IndieLitMagGala 2025—a solo-run powerhouse publishing inclusive, radical, community-rooted work since 2012. Massive thanks to @emmalee1.bsky.social for the nomination—this one’s richly deserved. Read here: thebrokenspine.co.uk...#IndieLitMagGala

Delighted to see my poem “Small Suns” published with thanks to the editors. thehooghlyreview.com/issues/ficti...

It seems to be #NationalPoetryDay again (#EveryDayIsPoetryDay) on the theme of 'play'. Not being a great writer of cheerful poems, here's one set in a play area published in The Dirigible Balloon www.dirigibleballoon.org/poem/Plans-o...

My review of SuAndi's Leaning against Time @carcanet.bsky.social emmalee1.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/l...

This week in the poetry blogs with @emmalee1.bsky.social @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social @vanopticon.bsky.social @johnglenday.bsky.social @pi-and-anne.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/09/poet...

My strangest (in a good way) publication yet: a poetry reed diffuser (peony scent) featuring my poem "You Didn't Name this Storm" (originally published in @thelakepoetry.bsky.social) www.urbanganges.com/product-page...

Lovely review of Voles "Can Spring be Far Behind?" anthology and I get a name check for a poem title: www.writeoutloud.net/public/bloge...

My review of Hannah Hull's Home is a Place that Visits Me from Arachne Press emmalee1.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/h...

BREAKING NEWS: New job role at WEM! 📢 We're hiring a Marketing and Admin Assistant to support our social media and marketing comms, as well as the day-to-day functioning of the wider WEM team. If you're passionate about championing local lit development, we want to hear from you: bit.ly/MARKADMIN

This week in the poetry blogs with @victoriamoul.bsky.social @matriches.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/09/poet...

Free piece of advice to anyone who wishes to source a book review: don't insult the reviewer. Someone approached me wanting a review of a business book. I said I was not going to take up the offer (on a poetry book reviews blog).

**AUDITIONS NOW OPEN TILL SEP 27** Want three of your poems with text and recordings of you reading them to feature in popular online poetry quarterly @iambapoet.com? You now have just 7 days to audition for your place in a wave in either 2026 or 2027. Good luck! 🍀 iambapoet.com/audition

My review of Jayne Stanton's Have they marked you with arrows? Poetry Space emmalee1.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/h...

Delighted to see my poem in Fragmented Voices with thanks to the editors fragmentedvoices.com/2025/09/12/y.... Appropriately, I baked a plum crumble today.

This, sadly, is no surprise. I wish it was. Businesses need to do better and recognise bereavement is different from say a notification of a change of address. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s....

Another set of curated poetry blogs to read with thanks to @davebonta.bsky.social

Lovely morning at the Mary Linwood Exhibition @leicestermuseums.bsky.social and afternoon at Leicester Writers' Club garden party with thanks to Terri for hosting.